Blackrock/€1.7m: A three-bedroom detached house on 0.25 acres with an adjoining two-bedroom mews house on a leafy Blackrock avenue is expecting to fetch €1.7 million at auction on October 7th.

Sherry FitzGerald is handling sales for Adare, an attractive green-shuttered house on Grove Avenue with 195 sq m (2,095 sq ft) of accommodation.

New owners could combine the two houses and revamp to create one impressive family home. The main house is bright, with views of the beautiful gardens from most rooms. Off the entrance hall is an L-shaped sittingroom/diningroom with dual aspect over front and back gardens and lots of space for entertaining.

A large kitchen/breakfastroom also runs the depth of the house, opening to a small enclosed yard. There is also a guest toilet.

Upstairs are three double bedrooms, with an en suite shower room off the largest room and a separate family bathroom.

Accessed through its own private courtyard, the mews provides versatile accommodation, ideal for a dependent relative, au pair or teenagers' den.

There is an entrance hall, spacious sittingroom/diningroom, kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom. This has its own back garden hedged off from the main garden and connected by an archway.

The very tranquil gardens extend to a quarter of an acre bordered by mature hedgerows and trees. A wide variety of flowering shrubs and herbaceous borders break up the expanse of lawn and apple and pear trees are well-grown. The garage is plumbed for a washing machine and there are two garden sheds.